diff --git a/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml b/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml
index b8eb9910..8db01c3e 100644
--- a/chapter-2/chapter-2-simple-project/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-3/chapter-3-quarkus-rest-json/pom.xml b/chapter-3/chapter-3-quarkus-rest-json/pom.xml
index d9e5bb4a..7ea54bf1 100644
--- a/chapter-3/chapter-3-quarkus-rest-json/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml
index 74b0ed01..50308c74 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-activerecord/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml
index 8dc5ffe7..b7ccfb92 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-activerecord/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml
index 7f1b03cb..fddb0bc8 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-reactive-repository/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml b/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml
index ab8e8894..7ed1134a 100644
--- a/chapter-4/chapter-4-quarkus-panache-repository/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-cloud-events/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-cloud-events/pom.xml
index ca98c2e1..c22696a7 100644
--- a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-cloud-events/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-kafka-streams/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-kafka-streams/pom.xml
index 662f3e37..182dbf4d 100644
--- a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-kafka-streams/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml b/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml
index 293c7607..78fab983 100644
--- a/chapter-5/chapter-5-quarkus-vertx-eventbus/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml
index 82491be2..d3c10071 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-cloud-config/pom.xml
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index 4b11f9a8..bd68984b 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-config/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml
index 6a7ee102..473a3637 100644
--- a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-database/pom.xml
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-debug/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-debug/pom.xml
index 72e0fb77..013da313 100644
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diff --git a/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-monitoring/pom.xml b/chapter-6/chapter-6-quarkus-rest-monitoring/pom.xml
index d6b1d93a..8a4ecf5d 100644
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index 512eb12b..28e3ab1d 100644
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